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Re:Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on Gi... by Osiris on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:27PM (#5828361)
Synergy does this. You buy votes with a donation and then you apply the votes to issues in the issue tracker. They recently fixed a bug that had been there for a long time but the devs thought wasn't important until a lot of people started voting for it with their dollars.

It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though, unless a similar scheme is used to fund 'new features' and not just bugs.

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Re:Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on Gi... by saraid216 on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @05:15PM (#5828651)
> It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though

Emphasizing this. This is why the police sometimes oppose safe streets and raised speed limits: it decreases their revenue from speeding tickets. It's a fairly well-known problem, though I've never heard of a fix.

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